FC3 installation hangs - agpgart?

[Jim Cornette]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:37:52PM +0100, Hans Mehlin wrote:
>  > 
>  > I tried to install Fedora Core on a roughly 3 years old Transtec 1001 
>  > server (Supermicro motherboard 370DER BIOS 1.1a) but failed.
>  > 
>  > Fedora Core 3 installation hangs directly after a "linux text"
>  > Fedora Core 2 installation hangs with repeating messages saying "agpgart : 
>  > Posted write buffer flush took morethan 3 seconds"
>  > Fedora Core 1 installation works thus...
>  > 
>  > Any clues?
> 
> Try booting with agp=off
> I recently fixed some bugs in the serverworks agp driver that could
> explain this, but to be honest, I'm not entirely optimistic.
> That driver has suffered neglect for way too long, and unless FC4test1
> works out ok, I'm probably going to disable it entirely.
> The lack of documentation and test hardware makes it almost impossible
> to debug remotely.
> 
> 		Dave
> 

Does the intel 810/815 series or video cards need agp to work? If so, 
maybe an agp=on option for those with this type of video card, after 
disabling it by default.

I'm probably wrong, but seem to recall agp and the i81o driver working 
together.

Jim

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